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Memoriam: Teresa Ciarcia
Teresa Ciarcia (Sicily [Italy], August 14, 1934 - Connecticut [USA], May 27, 2024)
Ma & Melissa A. Kotulski at her high school graduation in 1996.
Wethersfield Eagles (CT, USA) represent!
Ma's Eulogy by her "only granddaughter," Melissa A. Kotulski
DRAFT Eulogy (New File to Be Uploaded Soon, send an email for current version)
Teresa "Ma" Ciarcia passed on from this world on May 27, 2024 at 1:14 p.m.
And in addition to so many things that she provided to me, from laughter to intellect to medical care knowledge to empathy and more, she showed me the beauty of the sun-dried tomato way back in 1989 and continued to do so whether she meant or not throughout the rest of her life.
Go in peace to heaven, my dear treasure.
Family - May 28, 2024 at 6:05 a.m.
A blogpost I recently wrote about the Tomato: https://internationalattestations.com/blog/f/ode-to-the-international-significance-of-the-tomato
Photo credit unknown circa 1995 of Melissa A. Kotulski, Teresa "Ma" Ciarcia, and Giovanna "Nonna" Giacchi (Ma's mother),
Flags Over Wethersfield 2024 Flew Outside my Family's Home on the Day She Died with Her Daughters by Her Side
Memorial Day: May 27, 2024
Stock photo from the Flags Over Wethersfield team of Boy Scouts that has raised our nation's flag in front of my house four times a year.
Photo taken b y Melissa A. Kotulski Summer 2023.
"On Eagle's Wings" Sung by Ma's only granddaughter, Melissa A. Kotulski, in honor of her favorite church song
Her favorite Catholic Church song.
I don't know which Christian song is her most favored as she drifted from cogency soon after converting to another Christian faith.
"On Eagle's Wings" ©
(Registered #PAu000795409 / 1986-01-06; Psalm 91 ; Owned by Benjamin F. Zachary (permissions and licensing pending.).
Sung by Melissa A. Kotulski (May 28, 2024).
Photo taken by Melissa A. Kotulski on the Block Island Ferry circa Summer 2000.
"Go in Peace" sung by Ma's only granddaughter, Melissa A. Kotulski, in honor of her
A song that I learned when singing in a choir at a Catholic Church in Pacific Grove written by Sarah Hart and performed by me.
"Go in Peace" © Sarah Hart
Licensed to Melissa A. Kotulski (pending).
Song sung by Melissa A. Kotulski (May 28, 2024).
Photo taken by Teresa Kennerson on Christmas Eve 2014, the year Melissa started Law School at Iowa Law. They spent that Christmas Eve together reading and attending mass online while they waited for the party to start with everyone else in the family!
Ma's Obituary (May 31, 2024)
Please find Ma's obituary posted at, Dillon Baxter's Funeral Home as well as on the Hartford Courant's website on May 31, 2024.
https://www.dillonbaxter.com/obituary/teresa-ciarcia
https://www.courant.com/obituaries/teresa-g-ciarcia/
Photo credit unknown, circa 1975 in St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT (USA). Note the two clocks set two minutes apart. Melissa A. Kotulski was born at 11:58 p.m. in Hartford Hospital. You two hospital communities play nice now! Also note the ease she had with working with machines -- something that happened to the end of her career as an OB/GYN nurse/midwife.
Please feel free to check out the current materials about Alzheimer's Association, the organization considering the diagnosis that Ma suffered under for about twenty-five years. Ma also suffered under the diagnosis of bipolar in the later years of her life.
Ma's Spirituality & Medical Life (June 2, 2024)
Entry forthcoming.
Photo of Teresa "Ma" Ciarcia by Unknown Photographer, taken in St. Francis Hospital, circa 1992 and signed by her colleagues. She was also feted with a large-scale retirement party by the Hospital community, her children and grandchildren were there to celebrate with her.